Sectional boat.



PATENTED JAN. 29, 1907.

' N. L. SKENE.

SEOTIONAL BOAT. APPLICATION FILED MAR; 20 1906.

I UNITED TATE-s PATENT OFFICE.

SECTIONAL BOAT.

Specification of Letters. Patent.

Patented Jan. 29, 1eo7.

Application filed March 20, 1906. Serial No. 306.990-

To all 71111107711 it may concern:

Beit known-that I, NORMAN L. SKENE, a citizen of the United States, residing at SomerviHe, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,- h'a've invented new and useful Improvements in Sectional Boats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a sectional boat; and the object is to produce a boat formed in independent water-tight sections which may be easily and quicklyput together and taken apart without impairing the strength and scrviceability of said boat, said sections so formed that they may be placed one within another when detached one from another.

The/invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the fol lowing specification and particularly pointed out in the claims thereof.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a" plan view of my improved sectional boat. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section similar to Fig. 2, but with the sections of the boat detached one from another. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail plan of one pair of plates by means of whiclrthe adjacent ends of the sections are held together with a locking-pin in place therein. Fig. 5 is a detail elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a longitudinalsection showing the stern-section of the boat placed within the intermediate section and the bow-section placed within said stern-section.

. Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawingsi In the drawings, 10 is a boat formed in sections 11, 12, and 13, 11 being the sternsection, 13 the bow-section, and 12 the intermediate section. The stern-section 11 is provided. nith a water-tight bulkhead 14, and the section 12 is provided with a watertight bulkhead 15, said bulkheads adapted to fit closely together. The section 12 is also provided with a bulkhead 16, and the section 13 is provided with a bulkhead 17, adapt-ed to fit closely against the bulkhead 16. The adjacent ends of the sections 11, 12, and 13 are provided with plates 18 and 19, fast to the g'unwales of said section's, said plates arranged in pairs having tongue-and groove en agement one with the other.

Tapered pins 20 are adapted to engage perforations 21 and 22in the plates 18 and 19, respectively, and lock s'aid plates to' gether. A flexible connection 23, preferably formed ofwire rope, is connected atone end to a bracket 24, said bracket fast to the bowscction 13. The flexible connection 23 extends longitudinally of and beneath the sections 1], 12, and 13 and passing part way around a block 25 on the lower edge of the transom 26 extends upwardly from said block and is provided with an eye 27 at its upper end. A cord or rope 28, fast to the eye 27, is dctachably attached to a cleat 29, said cleat fast to the transom 26. l The stern-section 11 is provided with a re movable thwart 30. The intermediate section -1 2 is PIOVldGd'Wltll a removable thwart 31, and the bow-section 13 is provided with a referably fixed thwart 32. When it is de sired'io separate the sections 11, 12 and 13 one from another, the tapered pins 20 are removed and the cord 28 is unlashed from the cleat 29. The sections 11, 12, and 13 may then be drawn apart, as shown in Fig. 3, 1f l1 is desired to stack said sec rionstogether, as shown in Fig. 6, the thwart 31 is removed from 'lhe intermediate section 12 and the siern-section 11 is then placed within said intermediate section. The thwart may then be removed from the'stern-seci ion .11.,

and the bow-section 13 may be placed in said siern-scction, in which case the flexible connection 23 should be coiled up beneath said bow-section.

The bulkheads 14, 15, and 16 are so constructed and arranged that they do not interfere with the legs of persons sitting on the thwarts 30,31, and 32. g

It will be evident that I may connect the sections 11, 12, and 13 by any suitable connections located above and below the waterline ofthe boat 10 without departing from the spirit of my lIlVeIl'x'lOll. I

The boat 10, which is here shown as a flatbottom skiff, may be any desired form of boat without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire by Letters Patent to secure, i's

1. A sectional boat comprising in its construction a plurality of sections provided with water-tight bulkheads at adjacent ends thereof, means located above the water-line,

forconnecting said adjacent ends together,

and-means eXteriorly located for-connecting sa d ELCl]&O6I1t ends together, said last-named means fastened at one end to the bow-section i of said boat beneath the water-line and at the other end detachably attached to the transom of the stern-section above the water-line.

Z.' A sectional-boat comprising in its'constrilction a bow-section, a stern-section and an intermediate section, said sectionspro;

vided with water-tight bulkheads at their-adjacent ends, means located above the water line for connecting the adjacent ends of said sections together, and a connection exteri orly located fast at one end to the bottom ofsaid bow-section, the other end of said connection detachably-attached tosaid sternsection.

3. A sectional boat comprising 'in its construc'rion a plurality of sections provided with wateraight bulkheads at adjacent ends thereof, means located above the water-line for connecting said adjacent ends together,

and a flexible connection extending longitudinally of and beneath said sections, said con-' nection connecting the two endssections of said boat together.

4; A sectional boat comprising in its construction a bow-section, a stern-section and an intermediate SBC'flOIl, said sections provided with Water-tight bulkheads at their adjacentends, means located above the water-' line for connecting the adjacent ends of said sections together, and a flexible COIIIIGCUOII fast at one end to the bottom of said boW-section, the other end of said connection detachably attached to said stern-section.

5. A sectional boat comprising in its construction a bow-section, a stern-section, and an intermediate section, said sections pro vided with water-tight bulkheads at their adjacent ends, means located above the waterline for connecting the adjacent ends of said sections together, and a flexible connection fast at one end to the bottom of said bow-section, the other end of said connection detachably attached to said stern-section, said intermediate'section adapted to receive said stern-section, and said stern-section adapted to receive said bow-section when said sections are detached one from another.

6. A sectional boat comprising in its construction a plurality of sections provided with water-tight bulkheads at adjacent ends thereof, a plurality of plates fast to the gunwales of said sections at the adjacent ends thereof, means for connecting. the adjacent. I

pairsof said plates together, anda flexible connection extending longitudinally of and beneath said sections, sai'd connection connecting the two and sections of said boat to gether. 1

7. A sectional boat comprising in its construction a plurality of sections provided with'water-tight bulkheads ateadjacent ends together.

8. A sectional boat comprising in its icon- 'struction'a bow-section, a stern-section, and

an intermediate section, said sections provided with water-tight bulkheads at their ad- 'acent ends, means located above the waterline for connecting the adjacent ends of said sections together, and a flexible connection fast at one end to said bow-section, the other end vof said flexible connection detachably attached to the transom of said stern-section above the water-line.

9 A sectional boat compris ng 1n its construction a-pluralitv of sections providedwith water-tight bulkheads at adj acent ends thereof, means located above the water-line for connecting said adjacent ends together,

and means-extending longitudinally of and beneath said sections for holding said sections together, said lastnamed means fastened at one end thereof to the bow-section of said boatand movable relatively to said bowsection, the other end of said means de tachably attached to the stern-section of said boat, said sections adapted to fit one within another when detached one from another.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NORMAN L. SKENE.

Witnesses:

CHARLEsS. Goonrno, LOUIS A. JoNEs. 

